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...never been a picnic, the annual football ferocity between the University of Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners. But this year it was strictly M*A*S*H for Texas quarterbacks. On Texas' seventh play, the starting quarterback was scissored by two Sooner defenders and carted off the field with an ankle injury that will keep him out for the season. The second-string signal caller lasted longer-nine plays-before he too went down with a torn knee. From the farthest reaches of the Texas bench came Randy McEachern, a senior quarterback who had sat out last season...
...self-discipline and self-sacrifice in response to the President's plea? Popular reaction so far suggests that the answer is a plain no. After all, the American people until now have treated the energy crisis as though it were the moral equivalent of ants at a picnic...
Though he finds "no heavy philosophical purpose behind it," the marathon may end with a picnic and music, Moses said...
...class, aimed at age-old problems of freshman isolation and alienation. He would like to try several one-shot projects "that haven't been done in a long time or at all," such as organizing a freshman class marathon sometime this fall followed by a bluegrass concert and a picnic. At Manhattanville, Moses was largely responsible for injecting a sense of activity and celebration into the college atmosphere, initiating an athletic program and social organizations and, while he says he left there in part in search of a more academically-oriented post, he brings with him many ideas for extra...
...been swift and angry. The Daily Telegraph editorialized that the book constitutes "a failure of ecclesiastical statesmanship" that will confuse faithful Christians. The semiofficial Church Times dismissed the anthology as "a notably unconvincing contribution to the cause of unbelief." The Archbishop of Canterbury was heard to remark at a picnic that the book "has made more hubbub than it is worth"; in that spirit, he successfully prevented debate over it at last month's meeting of the church General Synod...